This is a 25 pound portable computer from the Eighties. It had dual floppies (5 1/4 inches), and one of them contained the entire OS. (DOS) It had a green screen, and was completely text driven. NO mouse. It had a hundred times less computing power than today's average smartphone. It had no Internet connection, because there really wasn't a workable, usable Internet. Do you still long for the Eighties?
Suffolk University Law School professor Andrew Perlman is one of the lucky 10,000 people selected to get an early test drive of the Google Glass — the futuristic specs outfitted with a small computer screen over the right eye, a camera and an internet connection.
Perlman earned a crack at the glasses before they become available to the public by submitting a proposal to experiment with them to improve classroom teaching and legal practice. For example, shy students might feel more comfortable...
